Top 44 Hedda Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Hedda

#1. Each romance, the type of self-destructive gesture Hedda Hopper would call "marry-kiri".Instead of plunging a sword into one's stomach, you repeatedly throw yourself on the most inappropriate erect penis.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. As the ample Hedda, who disguised her ampleness behind a billow of yellow summer dress, told it, her life up 'til she hoisted this very bloody mary in her hand was a convoluted tale of bubbly love gone flat, fine talents unnoticed and similarly woeful bullshit.

Daniel Woodrell

#3. What's the point of doing a brilliant Hedda Gabler in my back garden if no one will ever see it?

Jennifer Ehle

#4. 'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gabler', because there are so many similar issues for Maureen and Hedda. I had played leading ladies before but couldn't really hook into them. After 'An American Daughter' and 'Beauty Queen', I had all the ballast.

Kate Burton

#5. I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.

Cate Blanchett

#6. There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or somebody's wife or somebody's best friend?

Eve Best

#7. As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler!

Sophie Thompson

#8. A lot of young girls who came to see me in 'Legally Blonde' have come to see 'Hedda,' and they hadn't heard of the play either, just like I was before I did it! If I can bring a younger generation to see an Ibsen play; that's just brilliant.

Sheridan Smith

#9. Most women would say they relate to 'Hedda Gabler' - there's a part of her in them. Ibsen was writing about a deep ambivalence that many women feel about domesticity. I think about myself and friends of mine - we have some of Hedda's qualities and traits.

Annette Bening

#10. My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.

Talulah Riley

#11. I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

Sophie Thompson

#12. My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

Samantha Bond

#13. Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

Eleanora Duse

#14. Well, there were definitely elements of my rise in radio that had to do with my being black. But going back as far as Walter Winchell, Army Archerd and Hedda Hopper, legendary wags would grab a radio microphone and talk about what Errol Flynn and other stars were up to.

Wendy Williams

#15. If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.

Eve Best

#16. My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

Hedda Sterne

#17. The geniuses who conduct the motion-picture business killed glamour when they decided that what the public wanted was not dream stuff, from which movies used to be made, but realism.

Hedda Hopper

#18. I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

Hedda Hopper

#19. Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Hedda Hopper

#20. Smart writers never understand why their satires on our town are never successful. What they refuse to accept is that you can't satirize a satire.

Hedda Hopper

#21. In anger, you look ten years older.

Hedda Hopper

#22. For me, cooking is an extension of love.

Hedda Sterne

#23. In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

Hedda Hopper

#24. She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.

Hedda Hopper

#25. I was not an Abstract Expressionist. Nor was I an Irascible.

Hedda Sterne

#26. I got around a lot, and lots of people talked to me. I salted down stories by the barrel load.

Hedda Hopper

#27. I think Lilyan (Tashman) is one of the most amusing people I know but I believe she dresses in too flamboyant a manner. Where some women wear one or two diamond clasps, she wears four!

Hedda Hopper

#28. I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

Hedda Sterne

#29. You had to stand in line to hate him.

Hedda Hopper

#30. I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

Hedda Hopper

#31. TV by and large has become a dime-store business so far as creativity and talent are concerned. The half-hour and sixty-minute series rattle off the production lines like cans of beans, with an occasional dab of ham inside.

Hedda Hopper

#32. Ann Sothern's dressing room ... was unbelievably lush and beautiful. More elegant than many homes I've been in.

Hedda Hopper

#33. About once every six months someone notifies me that Lucy and Desi Arnaz are separating.

Hedda Hopper

#34. Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.

Hedda Hopper

#35. I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.

Hedda Sterne

#36. No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.

Hedda Hopper

#37. In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.

Hedda Hopper

#38. Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.

Hedda Hopper

#39. Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

Hedda Sterne